THE INCREDIBLE COMPANY GMBH

What THE INCREDIBLE COMPANY GMBH does

The Incredible Company GmbH (TIC) is a privately held German e-commerce distribution and marketplace services company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Altenholz, Schleswig-Holstein. The company operates a Buy-Sell-Ship-Grow model that purchases inventory in bulk from brand partners, then distributes and sells those products across European marketplaces — including Amazon (with automatic Prime badge qualification), Douglas, and Shop-Apotheke — while operating its own fulfillment centers in 7 European countries to support next-day delivery to over 200 million households.

The company's product surface comprises five integrated services: Fulfillment (end-to-end shipping and reverse logistics with a stated 99% fulfillment rate within 1–2 days), Marketplace Accelerator (multi-platform listing optimization, dynamic pricing, sponsored ads, and forecasting), Distribution (FTL/LTL/parcel shipping plus bulk purchasing), Brand Control (anti-counterfeit monitoring, unauthorized-seller prevention, and pricing-integrity enforcement), and Content Creation (listing assets and brand storytelling). The company's primary vertical is K-Beauty, skincare, and perfumery, and it self-describes as one of Germany's largest K-Beauty distributors, with stated ambition to become the largest third-party Amazon seller in Europe.

TIC generates revenue through wholesale inventory resale on its own marketplace accounts and through managed services to brand partners across its five service lines. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The company is founder-owned — co-founders Torben Boß and Nis Lehmann-Matthaei serve as general managers (Geschäftsführer) — with no external institutional funding disclosed. Revenue grew 114% year-over-year per co-founder commentary, and the company is committing to capacity expansion through a new Bredenbek logistics facility targeted for summer 2026 occupancy.

Name

THE INCREDIBLE COMPANY GMBH

Legal name

The Incredible Company GmbH

Website

https://incrediblecompany.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Incredible Company GmbH is a German e-commerce distribution platform that purchases inventory from brand partners and resells it across European marketplaces including Amazon, Douglas, and Shop-Apotheke, while providing fulfillment, brand control, and marketplace management services primarily to K-Beauty, skincare, and perfumery brands.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Altenholz

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Inventory Purchase and Resale: TIC purchases inventory in bulk from brands and resells products through their own marketplace accounts on Amazon, Douglas, Shop-Apotheke, and other European e-commerce platforms. Revenue is generated through the margin between wholesale purchase price and retail sale price.
2. E-commerce Distribution Services: Comprehensive distribution services including fulfillment, marketplace management, brand control, and content creation provided to brand partners. Services are bundled as part of the overall partnership model.
3. Logistics and Fulfillment: Cost-effective shipping and fulfillment services through TIC's network of domestic and international fulfillment centers. Includes fast parcel, LTL, and FTL deliveries across Europe with next-day delivery capability.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Incredible Company GmbH (TIC) purchases inventory in bulk from brands and resells it through its own accounts on European e-commerce marketplaces such as Amazon, Douglas, and Shop-Apotheke. Alongside resale, the company offers integrated services to its brand partners covering multi-marketplace listing optimization, warehousing and fulfillment across 7 European countries, brand-integrity and anti-unauthorized-reseller controls, content creation, and pan-European parcel/FTL/LTL shipping.

Product overview

The Incredible Company GmbH operates as a comprehensive e-commerce distribution platform offering five integrated core services: Fulfillment (end-to-end shipping with next-day European delivery), Marketplace Accelerator (multi-channel marketplace management), Distribution (bulk purchasing and logistics), Brand Control (brand integrity management), and Content Creation. Founded in 2019, the company specializes as a K-Beauty distributor focusing on skincare and fragrance products, connecting global brands with European consumers through a Buy-Sell-Ship-Grow business model.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Marketplace Accelerator Multi-channel marketplace management service that enables brands to expand across e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Douglas, and Shop-Apotheke. Includes market analysis, listing optimization, automated dynamic pricing, sponsored ads, forecasting, returns management, and customer first-point-of-contact support.

Quantifiable outcome

• Revenue growth of 114% year-over-year
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Partner Companies (Unnamed)coreOthersThe company states they are 'Partnered with growing companies around the world' and displays logos of 8 partner companies (partner1.svg through partner8.svg) on their homepage. However, no specific partner company names are disclosed in the available source material. Partners appear to be brands and companies that utilize TIC's e-commerce distribution services.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Zalando: Zalando is a leading European fashion and beauty e-commerce platform operating its own marketplace. It is comparable to TIC in providing third-party brands pan-European reach, though at vastly larger scale and a broader category mix.
• Douglas: Douglas is Europe's largest beauty specialty retailer and also functions as a marketplace channel for TIC. As a broad incumbent, it sets the bar for beauty retail scale that TIC's brand partners target through marketplace listings.
• The Hut Group (THG): THG operates an end-to-end beauty e-commerce platform with owned brands, manufacturing, and global distribution. It competes with TIC for European beauty distribution but spans a much broader portfolio of brands and capabilities.

Regional players

• Bol.com: Bol.com is the leading Benelux marketplace and offers third-party sellers distribution into the Netherlands and Belgium. It is a regional comparison point for marketplace distribution of consumer goods in Europe.

Direct peers

• Bigblue: Bigblue is a European e-commerce fulfillment and logistics provider serving DTC brands across multiple countries. It overlaps directly with TIC's Fulfillment and Distribution services for European brand partners.
• Helium 10: Helium 10 provides software tools and services to Amazon third-party sellers for listing optimization, keyword research, and advertising. It is comparable as part of the broader Amazon 3P seller enablement stack that TIC operates within.
• Pattern: Pattern is a global e-commerce accelerator that acquires brand inventory and distributes it across marketplaces worldwide, including Amazon. TIC operates the same buy-sell-ship model at a smaller, European-focused scale.
• Thrasio: Thrasio pioneered the Amazon aggregator model of acquiring brands and operating them as a 3P seller. It shares TIC's core business logic of inventorying brand products and reselling through marketplace channels, though at materially larger scale.

Others

• Shopify: Shopify is the dominant e-commerce infrastructure provider for DTC brands. While not a direct competitor to TIC's wholesale-plus-marketplace model, it sits in the same ecosystem of European brands that TIC serves.
• Cubyn: Cubyn provides fulfillment and logistics services for European e-commerce brands. It is an adjacent fulfillment infrastructure provider comparable to TIC's distribution and fulfillment arm, but does not act as a brand reseller.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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